Possible solution to Dpad issue
 

Last night, I was working on my phone tweaks and noticed the dpad was not moving the cursur as well as it should (at the time, I wasn't aware of the issue). I decided to go to settings>buttons>up/down control and I moved both of the sliders to better settings:

Delays before first repeat : moved it to the fifth notch on the "short side"
Repeat rate: Moved it to the fifth from the "fast side"

After I did that, I haven't seen the issue at all and I have been using it all morning, even with BT on. I haven't seen the BT shutdown though.

I've tried this, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

And my bluetooth just shut off.

Did you soft reset after making the changes? Mine seems fine now. Going on 8 hrs today alone.

I soft-reset several times. Still no dice. I did have a situation like yours - BT worked AND D-Pad worked for a solid 10 hours or so. Then crap.

when you loaded up the new rom did you soft reset right away or did you let the whole thing load up (with the sprint crapware) and then do a hard reset and soft reset? i read on another board that this might solve the problem, but i havent seen anyone with the dpad problem try it yet.

update: It just started acting up and the Dpad is now not working again. I guess I'm switching back to the Alltel until someone extracts the BT drivers out of this piece of junk and puts it in a workable format.

I've had to reluctantly switch off BT. My reasoning is that when I'm using BT, I probably don't need the phone's physical interface, and vice versa. But dammit, let's see a fix already!

What is really annoying is that it took everyone on here less than a day to figure out that there is an issue and it will take Sprint/HTC months to fix it. At least now, the custom ROM chefs will have a new ingredient to work with to cook up something decent.